Suspensory.



H. W. MONTGOMERY ,sUsPBNsoR APPLICATION FILED MAY 16, 1910Y 1,017,897, 'Patented Febjzo, 1912.

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faz/enfor- HIRAM W. MONTGOMERY, OF SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 2o, i912.;

Application led May 16, 1910. Serial N o. 561,759.

To all whom it may concern.' l

Be it known that I, HIRAM W. MONT- GoMnRY, a citizen of the United States, re-

siding at Santa Monica, in the county of' 'Los Angeles and State of California, have invented a new and useful Suspensory, of which the following is a speciication.

Objects of the invention are: ease with which clean parts may be substituted for soiled ones; 4perfect lit when new and adjustableness4 when the elastic pprtions become stretched by usage; also convenience in carrying a silpply of `new sacks.

In devices of the lkind heretofore in use, the sack is I. either entirely unsupported in the rear or the supports passing entirely or partially around'the legs of the wearer produce undue pressure when the wearer assumes some positions and insufficient pres-` sure when he assumes other positions, and no attempt has previously been made to supplysuicientelasticity and yet to minimize the amount of elastic necessary.

An object of my invention is to avoid thx foregoing diiiiculties and this I do by constructing a suspensory wit-h a single understrap, adapted to pass between the legs of the wearer and by constructing the belt and supporting strap partially of elastic and partially of inelastic sections fastened together. y

Other objects and advantages mayappear in the subjoined detail description.

The accompanying drawings illustrate the z invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view ofthe suspenv sory detached, the parts being inthe position they occupy when the appliance is in use. p Fig. 2 is a fragmental sectional detail on line approXimately-indicated by m2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3

is a detail of the cast-off and the suspending.

loop, looking in the direction of the arrow from 3, Fig. l, the cast-off being open and the suspending loop detached. F ig.` 4 is a detached view of two pieces of fabric which may be stitched together to form the sack. Buttons are shown on the two upper `corners of the larger piece. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the slidable link detached. Fig. 6 is a detached view of the sackcase with sack therein. The cover of the case is shownremoved. l The suspensory comprises a belt 1, an under-Strap 2 and a sack 3. The belt 1 is preferably composed of both elastic and inelastic materials of cotton or silk to suit the wearer, the sideelastics 4, 5, being only loingv enough to give the requisite amount of tension which may be adjusted from time to time by buckles 6 when the elastics 4, 5, be come stretched by usage. The elastics 4, 5, are preferably sewed to van inelastic back piece 7 of webbing or other fabric, elastic 4 being slidably connected by link 8 and elast-ic 5 being slidably connected by link 9 and a hook 10, with an inelastic front piece l1, which may be sewed to a cast-oli" 12 Ahaving suitable means as the snaps 13 for fastening the faps 14 that secure'a suspending loop 15 having fiatvends 16 provided with button holes 17 for the reception of buttons 18 sewed tothe upper corners of the sack 3.

lThe middle portion 19 of the suspending loop 15 is preferably rounded and the entire suspending loop may be of webbing or the fiat ends alone may be of webbing andthe middle rounded port-ion 19 of leather. The kconstruction with webbing alone is preferred.

i The ends of the loop 15 will preferably be left blank in the devices as delivered to the user so that the wearer may cut the button holes after having ascertained, in anyv convenient manner, as by temporarily pinning the ends of the loop to the sack, the most satisfactory posit-ion for them..

The cast-on and suspending loop together forni a ready means of temporarily disconnecting the sack from the belt while on the wearer, which is necessary because of the preferred closed construction of the sack.

A slidab'le link or bar 20 is provided at its ends with eyes 20' for the reception of the back piece 7, upon which said link is slid,- ably mounted rand between which back piece and link there passes an elastic connection 21. To prevent undue wear of the elastic the link 20 is provided with a'rearwardly and downwardly rounded flange or lipl 22,

`over which the elastic 21 isylooped. I he purpose of the slidable connection of the elastic 21 'with the beltl 1 that it may accommodate itself to any variation in the lengths of the sides by reason of the elastics 4, 5, stretching unequally or when the adjusting buckles t3 are operated to take up slack in either or both of the elastics 4, 5.

The elastic 21 is provided with a buckle 23 for the purpose of adjustment .when the elastic 21 stretches with usage, and is fur ther provided with a hook 24 for connection at its lower end with a, ring 25 which is sewed to one end of a piece of tape 26 or the like, the other end. of the tape being sewed to thelower end ofthe sack The tape 26 is made sufficiently long to bring the hook 24 and ring 25 to a point about one inch above the lower extremityT of the spinal column; thus the elastic 21 is made as long as possible, while the hook and ring are kept from beneath the wearer when he is seated. The elastic 21 and the tape 26 together form the under strap 2, which supports the sack 3 from the rear and is connectible and separable at the hook and ring 24, 25, in putting the suspensory on and olf and also so that the sack may be quickly detached from the elastic when the sack is to be laundried. The provision of detaching means at both ends ofthe sack allows thev removal of same with ease and the substitution of clean sacks, which may be carried in small boxes or cases a, one of which is illustrated in Fig. 6, the cover b being removed to eX- pose an extra sack 3 rolledwithin its case, the combination being compact and perfectly sanitary.

A short piece of webbing 27 is looped over the back piece 7 of the belt 1 and when the suspensory is in wearing position, illustrated approximately by Fig. 1, 'the webbing 27 lies immediately in front of the elastic 21 and between it and the wearers body so as to protect theelastic from perspiration.

Thesack 3 may be knit as one complete piece or may be cut from any suitable cloth, which has preferably been shrunk; a twopiece pattern may be employed for this purpose, a resulting sack in its developed and unseamed condition being illustrated in Fig. 4, in which 28 is the outer part and 29 the inner. In seaming up, the angular edge 30 of the en d 31is placed in a position correspending to the diagonal dotted line 32 of the opposite end or lap 33. Nhen the ends 31,33, have been joined, the oval opening 34 is slightly smaller than the piece 29 which is then sewed at its edge 35 to the edge 36 of the said oval opening.

ln practice the wearer will be supplied with a belt having the cast-off at the front of thel elastic back strap'21 and the webbing protector 27 connected with the belt as shown and will also be supplied with a requisite number of the sacks 3 to each of done by simply releasing Lomas? which an under-strap 2G is secured, each of said under-straps being provided with a ring 25; and each of said sacks being pro- `aided with the buttons 18. There will also be supplied one of the detachable suspending loops 15.

To -supply the device with a fresh sack, the belt with the back strap 21, protector 27, 'and the cast-olf 12 with the suspending loop 15 fastened therein, may be passed around the body and fastened with the links 8, 9 and the hook 10. The wearer may apply the sack by passing the ring 25 back between his logs, hooking it onto the hook 24, bringing the sack intov position for use, and but-- toning the buttons 18 into the eyes 17. The appliance is thus adjusted in place and when it is desired to displace it this may be the hook and ring fastening means 24, 25, which allows the under-strap 26 to drop forward; whereupon the sack 3 may be drawn out of the way.

. The back strap may be adjusted relative to the cast-oil by sliding the link 20 along the back piece 7, thus bringing the back strap 21 diametrically opposite the cast-off,

or to one or the other side of the center of the back as the form to be itted may reuire.

The sack 3 may be formed in any wellknown manner of forming concavo-convex pieces of woven fabric, and consists of a concave-convex member of a general triangular form provided at its upper corners with fastening means as the buttons 18, and terminating in a rounded tip 37 to which the under-strap 2G is sewn. By employing a sack of this form the suspensory will be fitted in such a manner as to give ease and comfort.

lVhenever it is'desired to do so, the sack and,understrap 26 may be detached and may be replaced with a fresh sack and strap, while the removed sack and strap are being laundried.

I claim 1. A suspensory comprising a belt having a back section, a link provided at its ends with eyes through which said back section slides, an elastic back strap suspended from said link, a sack suspended from the front of the belt, an under-strap fastened to the lower end of the sack, hook and ring means for connecting the under-strap with the back strap, and an inelastic protecting strip in frontpof the back-strap. A

2. A suspensory comprising a belt, a castoi' at the front of the belt, a suspending loop in the cast-olf, a triangular concave-convexsack connected at its upper corners with the ends of the suspending loop, an under-strap fastened to the lower end of the sack and` means for detachably connecting ythe back end of the under-strap with the back 'of the belt.

3. In a suspensory the combination with my hand at Los Angeles, California this 3rd a belt', of a link provided with two eyes slidday of May 1910. ably mounted on the belt, a strap looped around the. belt between said eyes, and a HIRAM W. JNTGOMERY. 5 piece of elastic looped around the link whereby the elastic is protected by the strap In presence of-I from Contact with the person. v l JAMES R. ToyvNsEND';

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set L. BELLE RICE. 

